Across
- 1. a combat for two mounted knights armed with lances, with each attempting to knock the other from his horse
- 4. a covering that serves as a defense or protection against weapons
- 7. a member of a class of small farmers of low social rank, as in Europe
- 8. a nobleman or peer.
- 10. the political, military, and social system of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, based on the work done by peasants for a landowner who gives protection in return.
- 13. having a high rank or title, especially of or belonging to a class with special social or political status given by birth
Down
- 2. one who is required to provide services to a lord, usually attached to the land and transferred from one owner to another.
- 3. a person who is given permission to use land in return for promising loyalty and usually military service to a lord or other superior
- 5. the mansion of a lord with the land belonging to it
- 6. one whose business is buying and selling goods for profit
- 9. any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members, and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
- 11. one who wrote copies of written things before the invention of printing.
- 12. a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood